After years of romances with a series of fabulously wealthy Nigerian boyfriends, the flamboyant Canadian sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo needed somewhere to store the pricey spoils of their dating careers. So they converted a bedroom in their Toronto home into a large walk-in closet that resembles a luxury boutique.

An entire wall is lined with more than 70 pairs of designer high-heeled shoes. Glass wardrobes display dozens of handbags and purses from brands like Hermès, Celine, Gucci and Saint Laurent. Equally pricey clothing drapes tightly from hangers and fills trunks stacked up to the ceiling.

There are separate drawers for belts, rings, earrings, bracelets, silver necklaces and gold ones. They own a collection of rose gold and diamond-encrusted watches easily worth several cars. And the white Mercedes-Benz sedan parked outside? It’s their third paid for by a wealthy paramour, they said.

Did they even pay for any of this stuff? “Not really, no,” said Jyoti, 34. Her sister responded similarly. “The only time I go shopping is when someone gives me their credit card,” said Kiran, 32.

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Armed with this luxury haul, the Matharoos have tried to copy the modern art of idle glamour pioneered by Paris Hilton and perfected by Kim Kardashian West. They followed the playbook so effectively that they are sometimes called the “Canadian Kardashians” for their devotion to spandex bodysuits, private jet travel, Christian Louboutin and social media.

But if their reality-television muses are famous for being shamelessly rich, the Matharoos became notorious after their unapologetic pursuit of material excess backfired, exploding into a messy international scandal involving one of the world’s richest men, a salacious gossip website, stints in Nigerian and Italian custody, and a battle to clear their names with Interpol, the global police organization.

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An entire wall is lined with more than 70 pairs of designer high-heeled shoes in the Matharoo sisters’ walk in closet.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

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Kiran Matharoo holds a personalized choker from one of the six jewelry drawers the sisters share.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

‘It All Happened So Fast’

The Matharoo sisters never intended to become a cautionary tale about the perils of social media influence. They were born and raised in Toronto, by middle-class parents who had immigrated from India. The sisters’ lives changed abruptly 10 years ago, when Jyoti, fresh out of college, met a Nigerian petroleum magnate.

“He’s not a rapper with expensive watches,” said Jyoti. “It’s generations and generations of money.”

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He flew both sisters on private jets to France and Greece and eventually to Nigeria, a destination they did not disclose to their strict parents. Upon landing, a convoy of Mercedes-Benz G-Class S.U.V.s drove them to his home, a heavily marbled mansion with a pool and a litany of servants. Kiran lazed away poolside while Jyoti accompanied her lover to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to play polo with a prince.

“It all happened so fast,” Jyoti said. “There wasn’t even a moment for us to be like, ‘Is this really happening?’”

Within a few months, she said, he bought her a condominium in Toronto and began giving her a monthly $10,000 stipend so she would not have to work.

This affair was not to be a forever love, though. Over the years, the sisters globe-trotted with a succession of paramours. In particular, both sisters traveled frequently to Nigeria and said that dating wealthy men there was easy. “Once they find out you have a sister, it’s over,” Kiran said. “We don’t find them. They find us.”

Neither would say exactly how many billionaires they had dated. “If you say more than one, you’re automatically considered a gold digger,” said Jyoti, though she admitted that the number is higher than one. “I’m attracted by the power of who they are, what they do and what position they are on the Forbes billionaire list.”

Kiran described herself as an old-fashioned girl who simply likes to be courted. “If you want to date me, you have to spoil me,” she said.

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Jyoti Matharoo checks her phone in a Walmart parking lot.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

In brandishing this high-end brand of pampered independence, the sisters seemed to delight in rejecting society’s expectations of women’s roles. “Marriage and alimony are acceptable, but being single and letting a guy give you things is not,” Jyoti said. “You have to own it. I don’t feel like I’m a piece of property.”

The Sisters Get Arrested

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Jyoti and Kiran shopping.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

When the dark side of the fantasy arrived — this was in Lagos, in December 2016 — it was as sudden as it was severe.

A few days after the Matharoos had returned to Nigeria, they were awakened by a loud knocking at their hotel room door. A group of men burst in and told the women they had to come to the police station. Some of the men, who turned out to be plainclothes police officers, took photos of the sisters in their bathrobes. These soon appeared online. The sisters asked to see a warrant and a badge but got no response.

“I told them I’m going to call my embassy, but when I started dialing, one guy grabbed the phone out of my hand,” Jyoti said. “They said if we don’t get dressed, they were going to carry us out just like that.”

“We thought we were being kidnapped,” Kiran said.

At the police station, the officers kept asking if the sisters owned a gossip website that had been spreading scandalous rumors about Nigerian elites — and about the sisters themselves. This site was among the blogs that had described them as prostitutes. “We couldn’t help but laugh, because the whole thing was so ridiculous,” Jyoti said.

From there, the sisters said they were driven in a van to another police station, this one belonging to Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a branch of the police notorious for corruption and using torture to extract confessions, according to a 2016 report by Amnesty International. They were taken to a dimly lit office where an officer, seated behind a wooden desk, demanded they write statements admitting that they owned the gossip website.

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“The site was in Nigerian Pidgin,” Jyoti said. “We can’t speak Pidgin, so of course we refused.”

After hours of arguing, officers pushed the tearful sisters into what they described as a rat-infested jail cell filled with a dozen women, a few pieces of foam for beds and a hole in the floor for a toilet. The next day, they said, officers brought them back to their hotel room, and took their passports, electronics and Nigerian currency worth more than $11,000 from the safe.

The women were then driven to a hotel by the airport and locked in a room with bars on the windows and guards outside the door. They said some of the men demanded bribes. “It was like we were held hostage,” Kiran said.

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Jyoti and Kiran inside a Toronto Walmart.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

All told, the sisters were detained for 18 days.

They were accused of cyberstalking and threatening to kidnap wealthy Nigerians, including one of Kiran’s ex-boyfriends, Femi Otedola, a politically powerful oil tycoon whose net worth was $1.8 billion in 2016, according to Forbes magazine.

While they were in detention, the sisters said the police brought them to the home of Mr. Otedola, who warned that he could have them imprisoned for 10 years — or worse — if they refused to cooperate.

Desperate to leave Nigeria, and getting no help from the Canadian Embassy, the Matharoos feared they were running out of options. Then, they said, an associate of Mr. Otedola’s arrived at their makeshift jail cell with an offer: If they apologized to Mr. Otedola on video, they could get their passports back and fly home to Canada.

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“I felt this was our only chance,” Jyoti said. Standing against a wall in their room as the man’s assistant filmed, Jyoti read a confession off her phone, admitting that the pair ran the website and apologizing to Mr. Otedola and his family. The man never returned with their passports.

Kiran said Mr. Otedola was furious that she had spurned his entreaties to rekindle their relationship, and used them as scapegoats to deflect attention from the website’s embarrassing rumors. Mr. Otedola did not respond to interview requests.

About a week after they posted bail, the sisters flew to Toronto with emergency travel documents that Canadian officials issued after they determined the women faced no travel restrictions and that “there was a significant risk to their physical safety,” an immigration official said in an email. The sisters said Canadian diplomats walked them to the plane.

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Back home, the Matharoos initially stayed off social media. But fed up with the public humiliation, they began speaking out to Canadian media and posting information about their detention on their lifestyle blog. “I couldn’t take it anymore,” Jyoti said. “We had to set things straight.”

Going public had devastating consequences. A few months later, in September 2017, American customs officials based at Toronto Pearson International Airport told Jyoti she could not travel to the United States because there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest.

A week later, Kiran flew to Venice, Italy, to go furniture shopping. She was waiting for her luggage at the airport when Italian customs officers locked her in a room with no food, water or explanation. “I was crying and crying,” she said. Eight hours later, officials told her that she was under provisional arrest. “They said, ‘There’s a flag on your passport from Interpol,’” she said.

She spent the next 40 days in jail, awaiting extradition to Nigeria, according to Italian court documents. European Union laws prohibit extradition to countries with poor human-rights records, so it’s likely she shouldn’t have been held at all.

But Nigeria never filed the extradition paperwork, and Kiran was allowed to fly home to Canada. (Italy’s interior ministry did not respond to requests for comment.)

Philip Adebowale, the Nigerian police official who detained the sisters in Lagos and issued the warrant that resulted in Kiran’s arrest, said that he had not colluded with Mr. Otedola and had not demanded bribes. Asked why Nigeria failed to request Kiran’s extradition, he first said the Italian police “allowed these girls to dupe them,” and then blamed bureaucratic errors. “If I sent them my boys, we would have cleared everything up,” Mr. Adebowale said.

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Once Kiran returned to Canada, the sisters began pleading with Interpol to purge their names from its database of red notices (alerts akin to international arrest warrants) issued at the request of its 190 member countries.

In 2017, the agency said it issued more than 13,000 red notices, up from 1,277 in 2002. Only a small fraction of the notices are made public.

Normally, Interpol goes after murderers and drug traffickers, not women fond of posting cleavage shots on Instagram. “You can’t trust countries like Nigeria or Belarus not to misuse the criminal justice system and Interpol to advance corruption,” said Jago Russell, the head of Fair Trials International, a rights group based in London that has pushed Interpol to implement stronger safeguards.

Dressing Well Is the Best Revenge

While they waited for Interpol to review their cases, the Matharoos tried to keep out of the spotlight. “We mostly just moped around lonely and depressed,” Jyoti said. “I couldn’t get myself to focus on anything until they dropped it.”

Even then, the sisters sought to capitalize on their notoriety. On some days, they would grab a camera and drive to a deserted warehouse with just enough industrial grit to be edgy. Its walls were their makeshift studio, where they would photograph each other in designer clothing to post online.

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Jyoti photographs Kiran as she prepares a paella for her food blog.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

Their work paid off. In June, an American man living in Dubai who followed Jyoti on Instagram contacted her about starting a fashion line. He planned to visit them in Canada, but then, in August, the sisters received a package from Interpol’s independent appeals commission.

Inside was a letter informing them that Interpol had deleted their names from its database. The Matharoos had won.

Jyoti had him book her a plane ticket to Dubai in September. “I was like, ‘Screw Toronto, I need to get out of here’,” she said.

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Her flight to Dubai was sleepless, even though she had packed all her Interpol paperwork. But she landed, and no one was there to arrest her. “It’s like the notice never existed,” she said.

What began as a business trip swiftly grew into a romance, with a stay on a private island and fashion brainstorming sessions over candlelight dinners. One evening, Jyoti wore a tight orange dress she had asked Kiran — a talented seamstress — to make for the trip. Impressed, the man, whom the sisters declined to identify to protect his privacy, sent the sisters to immediately find manufacturers in Los Angeles. There, the Matharoos rekindled their love affairs with private jets and pools in Beverly Hills. Jyoti modeled on her Instagram in a neon bikini and other outfits her sister made. Direct messages started pouring into her Instagram with requests for the clothes. “I told Kiran, ‘You need to sit your ass down and start sewing,’” Jyoti said. They are now in the midst of setting up their fashion line, SPCTRMstudio.

“I’m so relieved we can get back to our normal life,” Jyoti said. But they haven’t, quite. Recently Jyoti arrived at the Toronto airport with a plane ticket to Houston, only to find herself interrogated by United States customs officials.

“They were grilling me, like, ‘So, are you a prostitute? When was the last time you had a boyfriend,’” she said. “I said, ‘I didn’t know being single was a crime.’ I was so mad. Then I started crying.”

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Jyoti and Kiran getting pedicures at a salon in Toronto.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

The Matharoos also said they have been inundated with messages from women asking for guidance on finding a billionaire sugar daddy. “Surely you can shed some tips on how to become a kept woman who is still doing her thing,” read a typical message sent to Kiran’s Snapchat. For those wondering, they have some advice.

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Don’t be greedy. “When he asks what kind of car you want, don’t ask for a Rolls-Royce,” Jyoti said.

Second, observe proper “jetiquette” by dressing conservatively on his Cessna. “You don’t want to look like some guy hired a hooker for a weekend,” Kiran said.

And, obviously, when he hands you thousands of dollars for a luxury shopping spree, bring him back some change.

But if their brushes with incarceration have taught the sisters any new lessons, it’s that they shouldn’t bother. Men and their money are not worth the trouble. “There’s always going to be a guy saying, ‘Let me spoil you,’ who wants to fly us somewhere,” Jyoti said. “For once we want to just focus on ourselves.”

Dan Levin covers American youth for the National Desk. He was a foreign correspondent covering Canada from 2016 until 2018. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Levin was based in Beijing, where he reported on human rights, politics and culture in China and Asia. @globaldan

After years of romances with a series of fabulously wealthy Nigerian boyfriends, the flamboyant Canadian sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo needed somewhere to store the pricey spoils of their dating careers. So they converted a bedroom in their Toronto home into a large walk-in closet that resembles a luxury boutique.

An entire wall is lined with more than 70 pairs of designer high-heeled shoes. Glass wardrobes display dozens of handbags and purses from brands like Hermès, Celine, Gucci and Saint Laurent. Equally pricey clothing drapes tightly from hangers and fills trunks stacked up to the ceiling.

There are separate drawers for belts, rings, earrings, bracelets, silver necklaces and gold ones. They own a collection of rose gold and diamond-encrusted watches easily worth several cars. And the white Mercedes-Benz sedan parked outside? It’s their third paid for by a wealthy paramour, they said.

Did they even pay for any of this stuff? “Not really, no,” said Jyoti, 34. Her sister responded similarly. “The only time I go shopping is when someone gives me their credit card,” said Kiran, 32.

ADVERTISEMENT

Armed with this luxury haul, the Matharoos have tried to copy the modern art of idle glamour pioneered by Paris Hilton and perfected by Kim Kardashian West. They followed the playbook so effectively that they are sometimes called the “Canadian Kardashians” for their devotion to spandex bodysuits, private jet travel, Christian Louboutin and social media.

But if their reality-television muses are famous for being shamelessly rich, the Matharoos became notorious after their unapologetic pursuit of material excess backfired, exploding into a messy international scandal involving one of the world’s richest men, a salacious gossip website, stints in Nigerian and Italian custody, and a battle to clear their names with Interpol, the global police organization.

Image

An entire wall is lined with more than 70 pairs of designer high-heeled shoes in the Matharoo sisters’ walk in closet.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

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Kiran Matharoo holds a personalized choker from one of the six jewelry drawers the sisters share.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

‘It All Happened So Fast’

The Matharoo sisters never intended to become a cautionary tale about the perils of social media influence. They were born and raised in Toronto, by middle-class parents who had immigrated from India. The sisters’ lives changed abruptly 10 years ago, when Jyoti, fresh out of college, met a Nigerian petroleum magnate.

“He’s not a rapper with expensive watches,” said Jyoti. “It’s generations and generations of money.”

ADVERTISEMENT

He flew both sisters on private jets to France and Greece and eventually to Nigeria, a destination they did not disclose to their strict parents. Upon landing, a convoy of Mercedes-Benz G-Class S.U.V.s drove them to his home, a heavily marbled mansion with a pool and a litany of servants. Kiran lazed away poolside while Jyoti accompanied her lover to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to play polo with a prince.

“It all happened so fast,” Jyoti said. “There wasn’t even a moment for us to be like, ‘Is this really happening?’”

Within a few months, she said, he bought her a condominium in Toronto and began giving her a monthly $10,000 stipend so she would not have to work.

This affair was not to be a forever love, though. Over the years, the sisters globe-trotted with a succession of paramours. In particular, both sisters traveled frequently to Nigeria and said that dating wealthy men there was easy. “Once they find out you have a sister, it’s over,” Kiran said. “We don’t find them. They find us.”

Neither would say exactly how many billionaires they had dated. “If you say more than one, you’re automatically considered a gold digger,” said Jyoti, though she admitted that the number is higher than one. “I’m attracted by the power of who they are, what they do and what position they are on the Forbes billionaire list.”

Kiran described herself as an old-fashioned girl who simply likes to be courted. “If you want to date me, you have to spoil me,” she said.

Image

Jyoti Matharoo checks her phone in a Walmart parking lot.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

In brandishing this high-end brand of pampered independence, the sisters seemed to delight in rejecting society’s expectations of women’s roles. “Marriage and alimony are acceptable, but being single and letting a guy give you things is not,” Jyoti said. “You have to own it. I don’t feel like I’m a piece of property.”

The Sisters Get Arrested

Image

Jyoti and Kiran shopping.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

When the dark side of the fantasy arrived — this was in Lagos, in December 2016 — it was as sudden as it was severe.

A few days after the Matharoos had returned to Nigeria, they were awakened by a loud knocking at their hotel room door. A group of men burst in and told the women they had to come to the police station. Some of the men, who turned out to be plainclothes police officers, took photos of the sisters in their bathrobes. These soon appeared online. The sisters asked to see a warrant and a badge but got no response.

“I told them I’m going to call my embassy, but when I started dialing, one guy grabbed the phone out of my hand,” Jyoti said. “They said if we don’t get dressed, they were going to carry us out just like that.”

“We thought we were being kidnapped,” Kiran said.

At the police station, the officers kept asking if the sisters owned a gossip website that had been spreading scandalous rumors about Nigerian elites — and about the sisters themselves. This site was among the blogs that had described them as prostitutes. “We couldn’t help but laugh, because the whole thing was so ridiculous,” Jyoti said.

From there, the sisters said they were driven in a van to another police station, this one belonging to Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a branch of the police notorious for corruption and using torture to extract confessions, according to a 2016 report by Amnesty International. They were taken to a dimly lit office where an officer, seated behind a wooden desk, demanded they write statements admitting that they owned the gossip website.

ADVERTISEMENT

“The site was in Nigerian Pidgin,” Jyoti said. “We can’t speak Pidgin, so of course we refused.”

After hours of arguing, officers pushed the tearful sisters into what they described as a rat-infested jail cell filled with a dozen women, a few pieces of foam for beds and a hole in the floor for a toilet. The next day, they said, officers brought them back to their hotel room, and took their passports, electronics and Nigerian currency worth more than $11,000 from the safe.

The women were then driven to a hotel by the airport and locked in a room with bars on the windows and guards outside the door. They said some of the men demanded bribes. “It was like we were held hostage,” Kiran said.

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Jyoti and Kiran inside a Toronto Walmart.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

All told, the sisters were detained for 18 days.

They were accused of cyberstalking and threatening to kidnap wealthy Nigerians, including one of Kiran’s ex-boyfriends, Femi Otedola, a politically powerful oil tycoon whose net worth was $1.8 billion in 2016, according to Forbes magazine.

While they were in detention, the sisters said the police brought them to the home of Mr. Otedola, who warned that he could have them imprisoned for 10 years — or worse — if they refused to cooperate.

Desperate to leave Nigeria, and getting no help from the Canadian Embassy, the Matharoos feared they were running out of options. Then, they said, an associate of Mr. Otedola’s arrived at their makeshift jail cell with an offer: If they apologized to Mr. Otedola on video, they could get their passports back and fly home to Canada.

ADVERTISEMENT

“I felt this was our only chance,” Jyoti said. Standing against a wall in their room as the man’s assistant filmed, Jyoti read a confession off her phone, admitting that the pair ran the website and apologizing to Mr. Otedola and his family. The man never returned with their passports.

Kiran said Mr. Otedola was furious that she had spurned his entreaties to rekindle their relationship, and used them as scapegoats to deflect attention from the website’s embarrassing rumors. Mr. Otedola did not respond to interview requests.

About a week after they posted bail, the sisters flew to Toronto with emergency travel documents that Canadian officials issued after they determined the women faced no travel restrictions and that “there was a significant risk to their physical safety,” an immigration official said in an email. The sisters said Canadian diplomats walked them to the plane.

ADVERTISEMENT

Back home, the Matharoos initially stayed off social media. But fed up with the public humiliation, they began speaking out to Canadian media and posting information about their detention on their lifestyle blog. “I couldn’t take it anymore,” Jyoti said. “We had to set things straight.”

Going public had devastating consequences. A few months later, in September 2017, American customs officials based at Toronto Pearson International Airport told Jyoti she could not travel to the United States because there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest.

A week later, Kiran flew to Venice, Italy, to go furniture shopping. She was waiting for her luggage at the airport when Italian customs officers locked her in a room with no food, water or explanation. “I was crying and crying,” she said. Eight hours later, officials told her that she was under provisional arrest. “They said, ‘There’s a flag on your passport from Interpol,’” she said.

She spent the next 40 days in jail, awaiting extradition to Nigeria, according to Italian court documents. European Union laws prohibit extradition to countries with poor human-rights records, so it’s likely she shouldn’t have been held at all.

But Nigeria never filed the extradition paperwork, and Kiran was allowed to fly home to Canada. (Italy’s interior ministry did not respond to requests for comment.)

Philip Adebowale, the Nigerian police official who detained the sisters in Lagos and issued the warrant that resulted in Kiran’s arrest, said that he had not colluded with Mr. Otedola and had not demanded bribes. Asked why Nigeria failed to request Kiran’s extradition, he first said the Italian police “allowed these girls to dupe them,” and then blamed bureaucratic errors. “If I sent them my boys, we would have cleared everything up,” Mr. Adebowale said.

ADVERTISEMENT

Once Kiran returned to Canada, the sisters began pleading with Interpol to purge their names from its database of red notices (alerts akin to international arrest warrants) issued at the request of its 190 member countries.

In 2017, the agency said it issued more than 13,000 red notices, up from 1,277 in 2002. Only a small fraction of the notices are made public.

Normally, Interpol goes after murderers and drug traffickers, not women fond of posting cleavage shots on Instagram. “You can’t trust countries like Nigeria or Belarus not to misuse the criminal justice system and Interpol to advance corruption,” said Jago Russell, the head of Fair Trials International, a rights group based in London that has pushed Interpol to implement stronger safeguards.

Dressing Well Is the Best Revenge

While they waited for Interpol to review their cases, the Matharoos tried to keep out of the spotlight. “We mostly just moped around lonely and depressed,” Jyoti said. “I couldn’t get myself to focus on anything until they dropped it.”

Even then, the sisters sought to capitalize on their notoriety. On some days, they would grab a camera and drive to a deserted warehouse with just enough industrial grit to be edgy. Its walls were their makeshift studio, where they would photograph each other in designer clothing to post online.

ADVERTISEMENT

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Jyoti photographs Kiran as she prepares a paella for her food blog.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

Their work paid off. In June, an American man living in Dubai who followed Jyoti on Instagram contacted her about starting a fashion line. He planned to visit them in Canada, but then, in August, the sisters received a package from Interpol’s independent appeals commission.

Inside was a letter informing them that Interpol had deleted their names from its database. The Matharoos had won.

Jyoti had him book her a plane ticket to Dubai in September. “I was like, ‘Screw Toronto, I need to get out of here’,” she said.

ADVERTISEMENT

Her flight to Dubai was sleepless, even though she had packed all her Interpol paperwork. But she landed, and no one was there to arrest her. “It’s like the notice never existed,” she said.

What began as a business trip swiftly grew into a romance, with a stay on a private island and fashion brainstorming sessions over candlelight dinners. One evening, Jyoti wore a tight orange dress she had asked Kiran — a talented seamstress — to make for the trip. Impressed, the man, whom the sisters declined to identify to protect his privacy, sent the sisters to immediately find manufacturers in Los Angeles. There, the Matharoos rekindled their love affairs with private jets and pools in Beverly Hills. Jyoti modeled on her Instagram in a neon bikini and other outfits her sister made. Direct messages started pouring into her Instagram with requests for the clothes. “I told Kiran, ‘You need to sit your ass down and start sewing,’” Jyoti said. They are now in the midst of setting up their fashion line, SPCTRMstudio.

“I’m so relieved we can get back to our normal life,” Jyoti said. But they haven’t, quite. Recently Jyoti arrived at the Toronto airport with a plane ticket to Houston, only to find herself interrogated by United States customs officials.

“They were grilling me, like, ‘So, are you a prostitute? When was the last time you had a boyfriend,’” she said. “I said, ‘I didn’t know being single was a crime.’ I was so mad. Then I started crying.”

Image

Jyoti and Kiran getting pedicures at a salon in Toronto.CreditTara Walton for The New York Times

The Matharoos also said they have been inundated with messages from women asking for guidance on finding a billionaire sugar daddy. “Surely you can shed some tips on how to become a kept woman who is still doing her thing,” read a typical message sent to Kiran’s Snapchat. For those wondering, they have some advice.

ADVERTISEMENT

Don’t be greedy. “When he asks what kind of car you want, don’t ask for a Rolls-Royce,” Jyoti said.

Second, observe proper “jetiquette” by dressing conservatively on his Cessna. “You don’t want to look like some guy hired a hooker for a weekend,” Kiran said.

And, obviously, when he hands you thousands of dollars for a luxury shopping spree, bring him back some change.

But if their brushes with incarceration have taught the sisters any new lessons, it’s that they shouldn’t bother. Men and their money are not worth the trouble. “There’s always going to be a guy saying, ‘Let me spoil you,’ who wants to fly us somewhere,” Jyoti said. “For once we want to just focus on ourselves.”

Dan Levin covers American youth for the National Desk. He was a foreign correspondent covering Canada from 2016 until 2018. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Levin was based in Beijing, where he reported on human rights, politics and culture in China and Asia. @globaldan

They are the new fetish of the filthy-rich; the twin-menace that kindles their fire but extinguishes their virtue. That is why many a billionaire’s wife lives afraid of Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo. For the wives of Nigeria’s superrich, the fear of Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo is the beginning of wisdom. The elder sister is Jyoti and Kiran is the younger one.

The sisters have Indian blood but they are from Canada; they are very stylish and daring. They are always willing to explore boundaries and the extreme with their male friends as long as the latter are willing to pay their bills. Your money determines the degree of pleasure you get from them.

They fly on private jets and first class in commercial flights. They enjoy the latest luxury perks at their beck and call and they fly to any part of the world, Monaco, London, Paris, inclusive to pleasure the loins and vanities of their superrich ‘clients’.

In Nigeria, they stay at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi but they are currently lodged at the Eko Signature. Practically all the rich guys in Nigeria have spent time with them. Little wonder their names strike fear into the hearts of many rich, married women in Nigeria.

Just mention their names anywhere and you will see both married and unmarried women craning their necks and clutching at their men apprehensively. Notwithstanding their established notoriety, Nigerian men are willing to pay any amount to have these ladies as friends. Many have been known to visit their Instagram pages to glance at their half naked pictures and all. Unknowingly, they have destroyed so many homes. Watch out for the list of men who have fallen victim. Ask Sayyu Dantata, Aliko Dangote’s younger brother, he would confirm this.

Villainy may tarry like the night but the dewy spokes of justice eventually arrives like the morning sun, banishing away its darkness to replace it with light. Like highway bandits finally getting their comeuppance, Canadian sisters, Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, have sashayed and plotted their way into the dragnet of the law.

The high society courtesans that erstwhile threatened the peace of Nigeria’s rich, spoilt wives, whose husbands patronised coughed hundreds of thousands of dollars to grace their beds have met their waterloo. The exotic imports who held high society in a vicious, manipulative chokehold have been arrested.

The long arms of the law finally caught up with the Matharoos while they hatched a sinister plot against Forte Oil boss and philanthropist, Femi Otedola. Having used their slanderous and shadow website, naijagistlive.com, to successfully blackmail and torment the crème of Nigeria’s affluent males who couldn’t keep their member in their pants, for a long while, the sisters soon shifted their gaze to Otedola and honed in on him, hoping he would fall to their wiles and into their trap, like many of his peers.

But Otedola proved a tough nut to crack. Rather than fall to their machinations, the oil magnate in collaboration with maverick detectives, carefully coordinated his own plot against the Indian vixens. Eventually, he bested them at their game and got them entangled in the vicious web of their dastardly plot.

Contrary to popular perception that some unknown face was the mastermind of the slanderous website, naijagistlive, it was actually the brainchild of the Matharoos.

The sisters hid behind fictitious identities to malign and blackmail their rich clients. The detectives who apprehended them at Eko Hotel some days ago, via the use of cutting edge technology and intelligence measures discovered that the Matharoos were the ones writing and posting defamatory articles about their rich clients on the website. A visit to their base revealed secret video cameras and recordings of their trysts with their aristocratic customers.

The recordings revealed dirty and very shameful secrets of several of Nigeria’s most influential and powerful industry and political titans who patronised the Matharoos. Unknown to their clients, the sisters kept recordings of their liaisons with them and subsequently used them to blackmail and extort the poor fun seekers. Those who refuse to cooperate with the sisters are exposed on their highly controversial and defamatory website.

However, the sisters bit more than they could chew when they gunned for Femi Otedola. Now they are in police net.It would be recalled that Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, returned to Nigeria, once again after they fled in a hail of storm and invectives. The terrible siblings became the extreme fetish of the filthy-rich; the twin-menace that kindled the fire and extinguished the virtue of many Nigerian billionaires.

At the last count, the sisters allegedly raked in over $700, 000 from their liaisons with their billionaire clients. Little wonder, they struck fear in the hearts of several wives of Nigerian billionaires – they lived afraid of Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo. For the wives of Nigeria’s superrich, the fear of Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo was the beginning of wisdom.

While they held court in the country, they exhibited no inhibitions in their numerous exploits with other women’s husbands. They were always willing to explore boundaries and the extreme with their male clients as long as the latter were willing to pay their bills. According to clients of the Matharoos, your money determines the degree of pleasure you get from them.

The Matharoo sisters are indeed expensive company to keep for billionaires daring enough to seek their exotic services. They fly on private jets and first class in commercial flights. They enjoy the latest luxury perks at their beck and call and they fly to any part of the world, Monaco, London, Paris, inclusive to pleasure the loins and vanities of their superrich clients.

Before they fled the wrath of irate Nigerian housewives to cool their heels at an undisclosed location abroad, they held court at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi and the Eko Signature, Lagos. Practically all the rich guys in Nigeria have spent time with them. Little wonder their names strike fear into the hearts of many rich, married women in Nigeria.

Just mention their names anywhere and you will see both married and unmarried women craning their necks and clutching at their men apprehensively. Notwithstanding their established notoriety, Nigerian men are willing to pay any amount to have these ladies. Many have been known to visit their Instagram pages to glance at their half naked pictures and all. Unknowingly, they have destroyed so many homes.

By John F. Berry August 17, 1980By John F. Berry August 17, 1980International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. has made questionable payments of millions of dollars beginning in 1975 and continuing into this year to gain huge telecommunications sales contracts in Nigeria, according to ITT sources.Central to the Nigerian payments is a politically powerful businessman named Alhaji Chief M.K.O. Abiola, who, sources say, has received large payments and has distributed some of the funds to Nigerian government officials.By all accounts, including those of a senior ITT official in an on-the-record statement, Abiola has been paid lavishly to represent ITT interests in Nigeria.ITT officials say the payments to Abiola have been salary and commissions which, they say, are perfectly proper because of Abiola's role as a business partner with ITT in Nigeria. Abiola, who will be 43 later this month, has the title of chairman of ITT Nigeria and owns about 40 percent of the subsidiary in his company according to ITT's general counsel.

But other ITT sources say some of the millions of dollars allegedly paid to him by the company have been spread among government officials in the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN). One American expert on Nigeria describes Abiola as "a very key person of the NPN."Some ITT sources see the Nigerian arrangement as comparable to the huge questionable payments made in the early 1970s by such U.S. multinational companies as Exxon, Lockheed and Gulf to political leaders in Japan, Italy and the Netherlands, among other countries.These sources, with first-hand knowledge, say that ITT's top management has been nervous ever since the payments began in 1975. One describes the matter as "ITT's funny bone," a source of deep concern at ITT World Headquarters in New York City.The Nigerian payments have been made through an ITT subsidiary in Switzerland, ITT Standard S.A. Sources say Swiss secrecy laws have kept records of the Nigerian payments out of reach of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These sources also note that money brought into Nigeria would have to be declared under that country's tax laws.

These payments could involve violations of American securities laws and antibribery statutes.Under the securities law, companies must publicly disclose any questionable financial transactions.The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 makes it a crime for an American company or any individual acting on its behalf to make payments to an official of a foreign country in exchange for assistance in obtaining business. According to sources, ITT's payments have continued after the effective date of the act.ITT was asked to arrange an interview with Abiola for this report. An ITT spokesman said, however, that Abiola, a Moslem, had been celebrating Ramaden, the Islamic holy period of prayer and fasting. The spokesman added that after Ramaden, Abiola said he would be too busy to answer questions.Howard J. Aibel, ITT's general counsel and senior vice president, says one of his "principal responsibilities" is making sure the company complies with the law and its own directives forbidding any sort of illegal or questionable business activities.

As chief internal policeman for ITT, Aibel states unequivocally that there have been no questionable payments and says that the ITT-Abiola relationship is perfectly proper.During an interview, Aibel said: "All of the top management, including our board of directors, are familiar with the arrangements with Chief Abiola. And they've been a matter of some scrutiny and concern. We're watching them. We pay him a lot of money. We've gotten a big benefit out of the arrangement. We think we have done a very honest and honorable job in supplying equipment in Nigeria and have brought real value to that country."In most of the overseas payments scandals uncovered in the mid-1970s, there was a great deal of ambiguity about the relationships between mulitnationals and political leaders in the country where the corporations did business.

The allegations of Nigerian payments come at a time when ITT is concluding its third internal investigation of questionable payments in about five years. The current investigation, which was part of a 1979 settlement of a suit brought against ITT by the SEC, is meant to look into payments from 1971 through 1975, the year in which the alleged Nigerian payments began.However, Edwin A. Kilburn, an ITT assistant general counsel working on the investigation, says that the current probe does not stop at 1975 but continues right up to the present "to make sure we aren't violating the law."The Washington Post obtained a copy of a 77-page draft report of this investigation dated March 28. There is no explicit mention in the report of the alleged Nigerian payments.According to the draft, the investigative committee found that ITT employes made a total of $13 million in questionable payments since 1971. Of that amount, $8.7 million was disclosed in 1978 after the last probe, with the balance uncovered during the current investigation.

But one highly placed ITT source calls even the revised figure of $13 million "preposterous" because it's so low. If the questionable payments to Nigeria were included, he says, they alone would add "tens of millions of dollars" to the total.In the draft report, the committee acknowledges that it was "assured" by the European subsidiaries that they are "in current compliance with current ITT policies and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977."The committee also recognizes the difficulty in tracing certain kinds of financial transactions. "Three problems of financial control noted by the committee were the use of bank accounts not subject to normal audit control, large cash transactions and the use of fictitious invoices," the draft report states.In addition to its own internal probes, ITT for more than a decade has been the focus of numerous investigations by various law enforcement agencies, as well as the Watergate Special Prosecutor Force. During the Nixon administration, ITT allegedly sought to buy influence in the White House on an anti-trust case, as high-lighted by the famous memo written by former ITT employe Dita Beard and to finance those opposed to Chilean Marxist Salvador Allende.

A federal grand jury here has been probing ITT's alleged questionable financial dealings with government officials in Indonesia, according to sources. That investigation reportedly is winding down and indictments are not expected.With products ranging from communications cables to Sheraton hotels, from Hostess Twinkies to Scott's grass seed, ITT's sales in 1979 were $17 billion, ranking it No. 11 on the Fortune list of the 500 biggest U.S. industrial corporations.The telecommunications group is the biggest division of ITT, and the Nigerian telecommunications deal is one of the biggest contractual packages ever handled by ITT's telecommunications group.Abiola's emergence as ITT's man in Nigeria is described in the October-November 1971, issue of a publication called Nigerian Business Digest. In an article, Abiola is desribed as having grown up in the western region of that country. Abiola says in the article that in the mid-1950s his mother died and his father "had trouble in his produce business."

As a result, says Abiola, "I had my whole family to support."In the early 1960s, he says in the article, he got a scholarship to Glasgow University in Scotland, where he was trained in finance and economics. Returning to Nigeria, he went to work for Pfizer Inc., in 1967 as a controller in its agricultural division.A Pfizer spokesman at the company's New York headquarters confirmed that Abiola worked for the firm. The spokesman quoted a Pfizer manager as recalling that Abiola was "very bright" and that he left the company for "a better opportunity."That opportunity was to go to work in 1969 for ITT as controller in its Nigeria operations, where he has since risen rapidly to managing director and then to chairman and major shareholder.Abiola's precise employment status at ITT is difficult to pin down, however. For example, Juan C. Capello, ITT's director of public information, says Abiola is a "Consultant" to ITT. This suggests that Abiola wears two hats -- one as chairman or employe of ITT, the other as a consultant to the same company.

One thing is clear, however -- Abiola, who describes himself in the 1971 article as being extremely hard-pressed financially through most of the 1960s, has gained immense wealth during his decade with ITT. He also has acquired the honorary Nigerian title of "chief," which was not mentioned in the 1971 article.ITT's general counsel, Aibel, says of Abiola: "He is a businessman of substance in that country . . . and he has business interests not only in Nigeria but elsewhere in the western world. He owns a daily paper, a Sunday paper, a leading commercial bakery, and he's very much an entrepreneur."One highly placed ITT source said that he knew that Abiola recently had $8 million in an account at a London bank, as well as funds deposited in Swiss accounts.Aibel, who says he is charged with investigating and rooting out illegal or questionable payments, says he sees no indication that Abiola is a conduit for payoffs."We believe very strongly that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Chief Abiola has paid any government officials anything in connection with these contracts," Aibel said during an interview. "He has given us a commitment that none of his compensation would be paid to anybody in government. He has assured us he would act in conformance with the [Nigerian] law. He has agreed that he would give us certification of his compliance with that provision as well as others at our request, and he has done so.He has agreed that he will declare his commissions received as income and pay taxes and provide us with certification that that's the case. And he has done so."ITT declined to produce these documents for review or to say how much money Abiola has been paid. ITT spokesman Cappello quoted general counsel Aibel as saying: "These certificates exist. But since they are private documents between the company and an outside consultant, we feel it would be improper to disseminate copies."Under the terms of the 1975 contracts with the Nigerian government, ITT was to be paid $160 million for providing Nigeria with a modern telephone system, including telephone exchanges, central office equipment and personnel training.The equipment is manufactured by ITT European subsidiaries, including Bell Telephone Manufacturing S.A., Belgium; Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG, West Germany; Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., Britain, and Fabbrica Apparecchiature Per Cumunicazioni Electtriche Standard, Italy.Most of the equipment is then sold, including mark-up, to Standard S.A., the ITT Swiss subsidiary, sources say. The Swiss company, in turn, adds another mark-up and bills the Nigerian government.The sources allege that a portion of the money paid through the ITT Swiss subsidiary by the Nigerian government finds its way to Abiola and from him into secret bank accounts maintained there for other Nigerian officials.So-called "escalation payments" have increased the original $160 million contract package by at least $100 million. But Aibel says there is nothing unusual about dramatically escalating charges. "It's very common in American industry on any piece of equipment that's custom built and takes a period of time to complete," he says.While the alleged questionable payments to the Nigerians by ITT could be the largest amount ever paid in one country by an American company, it is just the most recent such case involving ITT. And ever since the SEC first began probing alleged questionable payments by ITT some six years ago, the company has relentlessly fought disclosing details.In 1975, reacting to pressure from the SEC, ITT's management conducted the first internal investigation and came up with $3.8 million in questionable payments. But the SEC, in a subsequent court filing, labeled that figure "false and misleading" and charged there had been a "substantally greater amount" of payments.A second internal investigation was conducted -- this one by a special review committee which, in a 1978 report, said the 1971-1975 payments total was $8.7 million. ITT reported this figure to the SEC. But the SEC wanted ITT to make additional disclosures to company shareholders about the payments and went to court in 1978 to force the issue.After the SEC filed suit, ITT took the case to the Supreme Court in an effort to stop the SEC from making public material that contained new allegations about the payments.But in November 1978 the SEC prevailed and the complaint was made public. It alleged that $8.7 million went to government officials and others in Indonesia, Iran, the Philippines, Algeria, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Chile, as well as Nigeria. The SEC complaint did not specify how much allegedly was paid in each country.In August 1979, ITT and the SEC settled the suit and as part of that settlement the company agreed to the current investigation.The new investigation has been conducted by the same special review committee -- and supporting lawyers and accountants -- that handled the last investigation made public in 1978.Specifically, for the new investigation, ITT agreed to seek disclosure about the payments from the four European subsidiaries, which ITT claimed had refused to cooperate with earlier probes.Three of these subsidiaries -- including ITT Standard S.A. -- are involved in the Nigerian telecommunications contracts.Three members of the ITT board of directors, who are not executives of the company, are in charge of the current special review committee investigation. The committee is headed by ITT director Terry Sanford, the former governor of North Carolina and now president of Duke University. Efforts to reach Sanford for comment were unsuccessful.In the draft report obtained by The Post, Sanford and his fellow committee members -- Thomas W. Keesee Jr. and Frederic C. Hamilton, both businessmen -- say that the payments, as a percentage of ITT's total sales, are insignificant."The new total" of $13 million "represents only .00026" of ITT's worldwide sales from 1971 to 1975, the report notes.There is also a "review person" who is charged with evaluating the findings of the review committee. ITT and the SEC agreed on Yale University Law School Dean Harry H. Wellington for the job.According to the SEC settlement, if Wellington is not satisfied with the report and its supporting documents, he can seek permission from the legal affairs committee of ITT's board of directors to conduct his own investigation.If the committee turns him down, then he can seek a court hearing. This in turn, could lead to the collapse of the settlement of the ITT suit and the reopening of the SEC investigation.

Do You Know Anyone Who Lives on Banana Island?

For many, this did not come as a surprise as Banana Island is largely considered to be on the same level of exclusivity with Saint Germain-des-Prés in Paris, Malibu in California, Beverly Hills in the United States, Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the elegant Calle Serrano in Spain.

9 Prominent Nigerians Who Live on Banana Island

Nigerians who live on Banana Island include a growing list of prominent Nigerians and expatriates who have incredibly deep pockets and can afford to spend millions of naira on a property.

Below is a list of 9 prominent Nigerians who live on Banana Island as well as those who own properties on it.

Linda Ikeji

Linda is Nigeria’s celebrated and most popular blogger. Her home is currently valued at N800 million. Her home is unarguably the most talked-about property on Banana Island owing to her status as a celebrity blogger.

Over the past few years, her net worth has been a subject of heated debate. In 2012, her blog was worth $1.2 million. In 2015, her net worth was estimated to be between N1.5 billion and N2 billion.

Her blog currently enjoys a daily visit of between 100,000 to 250,000 visits from over 180 countries.

She was also listed as Nigeria’s Highest Paid Blogger by Forbes in August 2016.

Kola Abiola

The son of the slain businessman, politician, publisher and winner of the 1993 presidential elections in Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola. Kola Abiola is one of Nigeria’s low-key millionaires. He is largely regarded as being socially invisible and this stems from the low profile he has maintained over the years.

His net worth has never been successfully estimated given his extremely private life and business dealings.

His presence as a resident of Banana Island doesn’t come as a surprise.

The chunk of his wealth is believed to have been inherited from his father.

Iyabo Obasanjo

Yes! Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo also resides on Banana Island. She was elected to the Nigerian Senate representing Ogun Central Senatorial District of Ogun State. She survived an assassination attempt in 2003 and is known for her political ambition and affiliations.

Mike Adenuga

As an entrepreneur and billionaire owner of Globacom, Nigeria’s second-largest telecom company, Mike Adenuga is a man with luxurious tastes. He has an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion and the figures continue to soar.

The source of his wealth has been easily traced to his business dealing in the telecom and oil sector.

His company, Globacom has over 27 million subscribers, which makes it the second largest telecom company in Nigeria.

Sayyu Dantata

Sayyu Dantata is the son of Alhassan Dantata who was the wealthiest man in Africa at the time he passed away in 1955.

He is the Founder and CEO of MRS Holdings Ltd (Formerly, MRS Group). He began his career as Director of the Engineering and Transport Division of Dangote Group, considered the Largest Nigerian conglomerate.

Dantata serves as a Director of Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc. and has been a Non-Executive Director of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited since August 2008.

He is a seasoned Mechanical Engineer by training at the Morris Brown College Atlanta- Georgia, USA and owns a property on the prestigious Banana Island.

Did you know that Dantata and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote are cousins?

Diezani Alison-Madueke

Nigerian is a Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC.

She owns a property on Banana Island that has been the subject of very many controversies.

She was accused of organising a diversion of $6 billion (N1.2 trillion) from the Nigerian treasury and was arrested in London in 2015.

Diezani was charged with responsibility for $20 billion missing from the Petroleum agency.

She was also accused of awarding multi-billion Naira contracts without recourse to due process.

Diezani was, however, not officially charged or tried for these allegations and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Bola Ahmed Tinubu popularly known as Jagaban is a former Lagos State Governor (1999-2007) and astute politician.

He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and has been said to have a net worth of N10 trillion.

He has been tagged the most successful politician in Lagos State. Tinubu owns a growing list of properties in Lagos (over 22) and Abuja including his property on Banana Island.

Aliko Dangote

Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote owns the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities. Dangote has been repeatedly listed by Forbes for his wealth.

Aliko Dangote is widely known for his staggering wealth. and was honoured by the Federal Government of Nigeria with the title of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger.

Dangote was hurled into prominence when Forbes listed him as one of the richest men in the world. This started in 2009 and he has gone on to be named the richest man in Africa; year after year.

He also owns a property on Banana Island, which explains his inclusion on this list.

Tundun Abiola

She is the daughter of late Chief M.K.O Abiola. She lived in the United States for many years before finally relocating to Nigeria.

Tundun leads a largely quiet lifestyle with the exception of rare appearances at social events.

She is a lawyer by training and had cut her teeth in the legal profession by working at the famous FRA Williams chamber before going on to work with Senator Gbemi Saraki as her legislative assistant.

Do You Know Anyone Who Lives on Banana Island?

For many, this did not come as a surprise as Banana Island is largely considered to be on the same level of exclusivity with Saint Germain-des-Prés in Paris, Malibu in California, Beverly Hills in the United States, Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the elegant Calle Serrano in Spain.

9 Prominent Nigerians Who Live on Banana Island

Nigerians who live on Banana Island include a growing list of prominent Nigerians and expatriates who have incredibly deep pockets and can afford to spend millions of naira on a property.

Below is a list of 9 prominent Nigerians who live on Banana Island as well as those who own properties on it.

Linda Ikeji

Linda is Nigeria’s celebrated and most popular blogger. Her home is currently valued at N800 million. Her home is unarguably the most talked-about property on Banana Island owing to her status as a celebrity blogger.

Over the past few years, her net worth has been a subject of heated debate. In 2012, her blog was worth $1.2 million. In 2015, her net worth was estimated to be between N1.5 billion and N2 billion.

Her blog currently enjoys a daily visit of between 100,000 to 250,000 visits from over 180 countries.

She was also listed as Nigeria’s Highest Paid Blogger by Forbes in August 2016.

Kola Abiola

The son of the slain businessman, politician, publisher and winner of the 1993 presidential elections in Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola. Kola Abiola is one of Nigeria’s low-key millionaires. He is largely regarded as being socially invisible and this stems from the low profile he has maintained over the years.

His net worth has never been successfully estimated given his extremely private life and business dealings.

His presence as a resident of Banana Island doesn’t come as a surprise.

The chunk of his wealth is believed to have been inherited from his father.

Iyabo Obasanjo

Yes! Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo also resides on Banana Island. She was elected to the Nigerian Senate representing Ogun Central Senatorial District of Ogun State. She survived an assassination attempt in 2003 and is known for her political ambition and affiliations.

Mike Adenuga

As an entrepreneur and billionaire owner of Globacom, Nigeria’s second-largest telecom company, Mike Adenuga is a man with luxurious tastes. He has an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion and the figures continue to soar.

The source of his wealth has been easily traced to his business dealing in the telecom and oil sector.

His company, Globacom has over 27 million subscribers, which makes it the second largest telecom company in Nigeria.

Sayyu Dantata

Sayyu Dantata is the son of Alhassan Dantata who was the wealthiest man in Africa at the time he passed away in 1955.

He is the Founder and CEO of MRS Holdings Ltd (Formerly, MRS Group). He began his career as Director of the Engineering and Transport Division of Dangote Group, considered the Largest Nigerian conglomerate.

Dantata serves as a Director of Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc. and has been a Non-Executive Director of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited since August 2008.

He is a seasoned Mechanical Engineer by training at the Morris Brown College Atlanta- Georgia, USA and owns a property on the prestigious Banana Island.

Did you know that Dantata and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote are cousins?

Diezani Alison-Madueke

Nigerian is a Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC.

She owns a property on Banana Island that has been the subject of very many controversies.

She was accused of organising a diversion of $6 billion (N1.2 trillion) from the Nigerian treasury and was arrested in London in 2015.

Diezani was charged with responsibility for $20 billion missing from the Petroleum agency.

She was also accused of awarding multi-billion Naira contracts without recourse to due process.

Diezani was, however, not officially charged or tried for these allegations and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Bola Ahmed Tinubu popularly known as Jagaban is a former Lagos State Governor (1999-2007) and astute politician.

He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and has been said to have a net worth of N10 trillion.

He has been tagged the most successful politician in Lagos State. Tinubu owns a growing list of properties in Lagos (over 22) and Abuja including his property on Banana Island.

Aliko Dangote

Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote owns the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities. Dangote has been repeatedly listed by Forbes for his wealth.

Aliko Dangote is widely known for his staggering wealth. and was honoured by the Federal Government of Nigeria with the title of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger.

Dangote was hurled into prominence when Forbes listed him as one of the richest men in the world. This started in 2009 and he has gone on to be named the richest man in Africa; year after year.

He also owns a property on Banana Island, which explains his inclusion on this list.

Tundun Abiola

She is the daughter of late Chief M.K.O Abiola. She lived in the United States for many years before finally relocating to Nigeria.

Tundun leads a largely quiet lifestyle with the exception of rare appearances at social events.

She is a lawyer by training and had cut her teeth in the legal profession by working at the famous FRA Williams chamber before going on to work with Senator Gbemi Saraki as her legislative assistant.

Late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s son, Seun Kuti, has attacked American rapper and Kim Kardashian’s husband, Kanye West,for claiming Fela’s spirit flows through him. Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (AFP0 The American rapper made the statement in a video he posted on Twitter, where he bragged that he’s the best rapper, musician in the world “The music is the best on the planet. I am the best living recording artiste. We, rather, because the spirits flow through me.

Only Way To Truly Honour Fela Is To Be Unapologetically Against Oppressors, Says Seun Kuti

"Fela sing against MKO una vote am. Fela sing against Obasanjo una vote am. Fela sing against Buhari una vote am. Now una go still vote for Atiku. Where is the love? Nigerian people, make una talk true na. Who’s fooling who? The only way to truly honour Fela is to be unapologetically against oppressors," he said.

The spirit of Fela, the spirit of Marley, the spirit of 2Pac flows through me. We know who the best is”, he said. Reacting to Kanye’s claim, which he probably innocently made out of the musical influence Felamust have had on him, Seun said. “On behalf of the Kuti family, I want to state that the spirit of Olufela Anikulapo-Kuti isn’t anywhere near Kanye West.” Recall that in 2017, Kanye West was reportedly treated for bipolar disorder after he suffered mental exhaustion.Who knows, Seun may probably have been stylishly alluding to Kanye’s mental instability when he said the spirit of Fela wasn’t anywhere close to the celebrated rapper.

Seun Kuti, one of the sons of the late Afrobeats Icon, Fela Kuti has said everyone wants to be like the late musician “just because they want to smoke igbo and chase women", rather than promote the ideals of the late musician.

In a post on his Instagram page to celebrate the 80th posthumous birthday of his father, Seun Kuti said most rappers just mention Fela’s name to align with greatness, and that most of them often ignore the sacrifice the late singer made.

His words: "People will never understand you without going through the education you have tried to promote. Every Tom, Dick and Ashy is the new Fela, just because they want to smoke igbo and chase women. How about the sacrifice? How about duty?

"They want to be Fela and at the same time be the darlings of all the oppressors. All these new Fela’s and those possessed by his sprit hobnobbing with white supremacists; they think you are great because rappers mention your name. They don’t know that rappers mention your name so they can feel greatness. What do they know about sacrifice? What do they know about the trauma that first-hand violence has inflicted on our family? The blind leading the blind listening to the deaf speak! Happy 80th. The struggle intensifies!!!

“Una never ready!! The only way to stop being a victim is to become the enemy of your oppressor!! Franz Fanon! Una just dey vex say Una dey betray Una sef

"Fela sing against MKO una vote am. Fela sing against Obasanjo una vote am. Fela sing against Buhari una vote am. Now una go still vote for Atiku. Where is the love? Nigerian people, make una talk true na. Who’s fooling who? The only way to truly honour Fela is to be unapologetically against oppressors."

Fela is known for using his music to speak to government and the society. The singer is celebrated every year in a week-long event at the Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Lagos. This year, the celebration started on Monday October 15 and would last till October 21.

Late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s son, Seun Kuti, has attacked American rapper and Kim Kardashian’s husband, Kanye West,for claiming Fela’s spirit flows through him. Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (AFP0 The American rapper made the statement in a video he posted on Twitter, where he bragged that he’s the best rapper, musician in the world “The music is the best on the planet. I am the best living recording artiste. We, rather, because the spirits flow through me.

The spirit of Fela, the spirit of Marley, the spirit of 2Pac flows through me. We know who the best is”, he said. Reacting to Kanye’s claim, which he probably innocently made out of the musical influence Felamust have had on him, Seun said. “On behalf of the Kuti family, I want to state that the spirit of Olufela Anikulapo-Kuti isn’t anywhere near Kanye West.” Recall that in 2017, Kanye West was reportedly treated for bipolar disorder after he suffered mental exhaustion.Who knows, Seun may probably have been stylishly alluding to Kanye’s mental instability when he said the spirit of Fela wasn’t anywhere close to the celebrated rapper.

Late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s son, Seun Kuti, has attacked American rapper and Kim Kardashian’s husband, Kanye West,for claiming Fela’s spirit flows through him. Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (AFP0 The American rapper made the statement in a video he posted on Twitter, where he bragged that he’s the best rapper, musician in the world “The music is the best on the planet. I am the best living recording artiste. We, rather, because the spirits flow through me.

The spirit of Fela, the spirit of Marley, the spirit of 2Pac flows through me. We know who the best is”, he said. Reacting to Kanye’s claim, which he probably innocently made out of the musical influence Felamust have had on him, Seun said. “On behalf of the Kuti family, I want to state that the spirit of Olufela Anikulapo-Kuti isn’t anywhere near Kanye West.” Recall that in 2017, Kanye West was reportedly treated for bipolar disorder after he suffered mental exhaustion.Who knows, Seun may probably have been stylishly alluding to Kanye’s mental instability when he said the spirit of Fela wasn’t anywhere close to the celebrated rapper.

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